Latest Free Tool: ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log

ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log displays PXE boot events in an easy-to-view format and provides a history of PXE boot attempts on a distribution point during a selected time period. The tool can also display any records that exist in ConfigMgr associated with a device based on its SMBIOS GUID.

Month: September 2014

In my last post, we looked at how to report on the deployment status of ConfigMgr Applications using PowerShell. Of course, you can get this information from the built-in ConfigMgr SSRS reports too, but our aim here is to report this data quickly by using PowerShell to query the ConfigMgr database directly. It enables you to […]

PowerShell and SQL server. It’s a combination I’m liking more every day 🙂 In this post, I give you a PowerShell script that will query your ConfigMgr SQL server and return the deployment status of a ConfigMgr Application. It will return data for each deployment of the application, giving you the names of the deployment […]

Recently I noticed that the available disk space on my ConfigMgr distribution points was getting low. Since they are mostly VMs using SAN storage it’s fairly easy to increase the disk space, but it got me thinking about how I could monitor the DPs for available free space, as well as the sizes of the […]

There is more than one way to get data from ConfigMgr. Some data you can get directly from the ConfigMgr Console. But if you want more detailed and customised information you usually need to go a bit deeper, for example by using the ConfigMgr PowerShell cmdlets, querying WMI with PowerShell or some other tool, or […]

If you have access to your ConfigMgr database, you have access to a wealth of information, including the detailed steps of your OS deployments. Below is a PowerShell script that will query the ConfigMgr database and return the detailed steps of your deployments. You can specify a particular machine that is being or has been deployed, the […]

While waiting for a task sequence to run on a newly deployed computer, I found that the collection I had deployed the task sequence to had not updated even though I added the computer to the collection. After some investigation, I discovered I had exceeded the recommended threshold for the number of collections that can be […]